August 2024 product updates

Accessibility: information regarding quick nav in Voice Over

Voice Over, the screenreader used in MacOS and iOS, overrides arrow key navigation unless you turn off 'quick nav'. As some of the components in itslearning uses arrow key navigation, this setting needs to be switched off to navigate properly when Voice Over is activated. We have added information about this in the personal settings page, near the accessibility settings.

Design update: Updates page

After implementing new, white, menus and updating the design of the course cards page, we are now refreshing the updates page to match.

Discontinuation: Immersive reader in Edge

We have piloted support for Immersive reader in Edge for some time, but have now decided to end this pilot and remove the feature. Note: The integration of Immersive reader in Planner, Assignment, Note and Announcements is not affected by this.

Email notification of changes to two-factor authentication

Email confirmation is now sent to the user when:

• They have successfully completed setting up two-factor authentication.
• Authentication app is disconnected, either by the user themselves or by itslearning administrator.

Import/export plans

Teachers can import and export their plans to other itslearning courses. This feature is mainly used when teachers are changing jobs and they want to reuse their plans in the itslearning site of their new school. We are reusing functionality from the old planner.

Accessibility fix: Title labels for editors

To help screen reader users understand pages with the editor, the editor needs an understandable and descriptive title attribute. After investigation we found two places this was missing, those are now added.

Changes are done in the following places:

• Courses > Course > Resources > Add Discussion (open Add discussion page into new tab)
• Courses > Course > Resources > Add Task (open Add task page into new tab)

Discontinuation: Open module applications in existing window

As preparation for the ongoing work to remove iframes in itslearning (Admin pages will have these removed late July), we need to remove the option to open module applications inside the itslearning window, as this functionality relies on iframes. All 3rd party module applications will now open in a new window (tab).

The setting is removed from module application setup.

Small update to date picker in the planner

After setting the start date of a a plan, the end date will automatically be filled once the start date looses focus. 

Small adjustments to the notification panel

The notification panel is made wider, so that it has the same width as the new message panel and the personal menu.

New profile information page

We have replaced the old profile card with a new, smaller card which also loads much faster. This simplified profile card only contains key information, and we are now building a new full page to replace the information found in the old card. We expect this work to stretch over the course of multiple releases, adding content in order of importance. We aim to replace all the information, and later modernise further.

The screenshot below gives you an idea of what the new page will look like when completed.

This first step includes the top section with basic information and the About section below with more detailed information if that's available and permitted for the current user to see.